"Who are you?"

Just as the two of us were trying to figure out the door, a sharp question came from behind us. When I turned around, I saw a peasant woman standing behind her, carrying a basket in her hand, and she didn't look very polite.

"Hello, I am Li Jinquan's teacher, my surname is Shen, and this is a helper at the school. Li Jinquan hasn't been in class for two days, so let's do a home visit to find out the situation. ”

Shen Mengtian spoke very politely, but the peasant woman didn't appreciate it, and shouted while impatiently rushing away: "My son reads if he likes to read, and if he doesn't like to read, he is at home, anyway, I don't plan to let him continue to study after finishing elementary school." It doesn't matter if you don't go now!"

She had already reached the door as she spoke, and was about to close the wooden door when it was blocked by my foot.

"What are you doing?"

The peasant woman asked.

"If you want your son to die, close the door. ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of Shen Mengtian and the peasant woman behind him changed slightly, Shen Mengtian tugged at the corner of my clothes behind me, and I held my hands behind my back to signal her to rest assured.

"What do you mean, curse my son to death!"

The peasant woman shouted loudly.

"I'm not cursing your son to death, I'm just saying the truth, your son's problem is very serious now, if he doesn't treat it again, he will definitely not be cured if it drags on. Don't you even feel it? There's something on your son. ”

I said this half-truth, but the peasant woman immediately became alarmed, lowered her head and squinted at me, and then said, "What do you mean by saying that there is something on my son......? That thing?"

"What do you say? Now let's go in. ”

After I finished speaking, I pushed the door, and the peasant woman got out of the way and let us into the courtyard. Walking all the way to the house, I took out the coins of Motanjiao and held them in my hand, and asked at the same time: "Your village looks very depressed, and there is no one to take care of the land, and your yard looks strangely deserted, why don't you raise something?"

"The situation in our village has not been good in the past few years, the harvest has not been good, and what the family raises and dies. Then no one dared to raise it, come in, my son is in the room on the left, my husband is in the room on the right, don't go in, his paralyzed body smells. ”

I nodded, and walked into the room on the left with Shen Mengtian. Sure enough, I saw Li Jinquan, the child, sitting by the window in a daze, looking out the window, feeling lifeless.

"This ...... This little master, you say my son has something on him, what is it, do you drink water?"

She ran to the back kitchen to pour boiling water to herself, and Shen Mengtian seized the opportunity to ask, "Do you know that her son has dirty things on him?"

"I don't know, or I'm not sure. ”

I shrugged my shoulders and replied.

"Then how can you be so sure, are you lying?"

Shen Mengtian, an honest little girl, has a different thinking from us, she can't deceive people, and she is easy to trust others.

"Rural people are relatively simple, and Li Jinquan's mother is not highly educated, so I say this kind of thing so that we can come in and understand the situation. Otherwise, just tell us in a serious way, who will pay attention to us? I call it flexibility, you don't expose me for a while, and only after we have enough information can we prescribe the right medicine and save the children. ”

As soon as I finished speaking, Li Jinquan's mother walked out with two bowls of water, her eyes kept looking at me, hoping that I would quickly talk about her son's problem.

I pretended to take a sip of water, thought about it for a while, and then said, "You also see your son's current appearance, do you think it's normal?"

Li Jinquan's mother slowly lowered her head, sighed and said, "I also know that my son has a problem, but I took him to the health center some time ago, and he was fine after examination. The doctor said it was a psychological problem and asked me to take him to a hospital in the city to see a psychiatrist. But I'm the only one in the family who can do the work, and if I take him to the city, there will be no one to take care of his father. But I didn't expect it to drag on day by day, and now I can't touch him, I can only talk to him, and shout when I touch him. Hey......"

It was the same as it was at school, and I continued, "Did he do that in the past, and if not, when did he become like this?"

"My family Jinquan used to be quite lively, although his father had an accident, he has always been very well-behaved and sensible, and he usually helps me with housework and is a good boy. If I want to talk about the change, it is that I had a high fever a while ago, vomiting and convulsions at night. I took him to the health center to see a doctor, hung the water overnight, and was fine the next day. Since then, things have slowly changed. ”

The time is also completely consistent with what Shen Mengtian said.

"You were with you all night in the health center that night?"

I asked.

"That's not either, because his dad has to take care of him at night, and I can't leave. But the eldest lady of the health center is very good, we all know each other, so we entrust him to take care of her. The next day I went to pick up the ...... from Gimcheon."

After hearing this, that is to say, Li Jinquan, who was the first to become ill, did not have his family around to take care of him on the night of the onset of the disease, so no one knew what happened to him in the health center.

"After you came back, was there anything unusual, like talking nonsense a lot, or doing some weird actions?"

I then asked.

"Not really, oh, if it's abnormal, it's that my family Jinquan hasn't wanted to go out into the sun since then. I watched him come home the other day, and the sun was good, but he was walking under the shade of a tree. Nothing else, nothing strange......"

The peasant woman's words were like a bell struck in my head, and I woke up in an instant, sunshine!

Why is it that not everyone in the class is infected? Because the children who are not infected are sitting in the sun! Because the sun protects them? That is, all of these children are afraid of the sun.

"I'll go first to see your son, don't come in outside. ”

I took out my flashlight as I walked inside, and if these kids were resistant to only sunlight or all light?

Walking up to Li Jinquan, he didn't respond, I picked up a flashlight and shone it on his face, a few seconds passed, Li Jinquan didn't feel it at all. I was about to turn off the flashlight when I saw some strange patterns on his skin.

"Pattern ......"

I frowned, walked over and took a closer look, when the light source of the flashlight this pattern was completely revealed, I was suddenly taken aback, Shen Mengtian walked behind me and asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

"This pattern is exactly the same as the one I saw on the skull of the skeleton, this child has been cursed!"

I lowered my voice and said.

Originally, I thought that the child's sudden accident had something to do with the supernatural events in the school, but I never expected that so many inside stories could be involved, and the patterns that appeared on Li Jinquan's face showed one thing, this incident, or this series of events, was not a single thing, and the ghost of the Japanese soldier should not be a remnant of the old era.

There must be someone behind the scenes!

"What's going on? Can my son be cured?"

Li Jinquan's mother asked with some excitement.

"It's hard to say now, you must take care of him these days, if the sun comes out tomorrow, take him to the sun to bask in the sun, whether he shouts or struggles, you have to take him to the sun. Do you understand?"

I said with a serious face.

"You know, you know, can you just bask in the sun?"

She still kept asking, and I had already pulled Shen Mengtian out, and walked out of the village quickly before I said: "I must now confirm whether the other children have this poisonous curse on their bodies like Li Jinquan, let's go to the other children's houses to have a look." ”

It took more than two hours to go around this circle, and it had already begun to rain heavily, Shen Mengtian and I sat on the bus back, all the children were cursed, but according to the length of the illness, this curse also has depth. The deepest is Li Jinquan, who is the first child to be cursed, and the other children are fainter than the others, but I believe that these curse marks will become deeper as time goes by.

"What do we do next?"

Shen Mengtian asked.

"You go back to Mr. Xu's house first, and I'll go to school once. It's raining today, so if there's lightning, it's even better!"

With that, I got off the bus at the stop. “